PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9706, 31 January 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

Our Resident Reporter). Saturday. The Scarlet Troubadours played to a crowded house last evening- The theatre proved much too small for the seating accommodation required, and several were unable to gain admittance. A new and up-to date theatre is an item that needs earn;st consideration from our city fathers. Messrs Husband and Finch, land agents, report disposing of properties as under, since Christmas:— Eight hundred acres at Foxton, 2700 acres at Marton, 345 acres at Kohumii, 100 acres at Woodville, 500 acres at Palmerston North, and two houses and sections at Pahiatua. They also report that of late they have received far more inquiries for all classes of land. Last evening there was a vary good attendance at the Salvation Army Barracks, the occasion being a farewell musical evening to Captain Johnston and Lieutenant Chalker, both of whom have been transferred to Otaki. Ensign Botheras and StaffCaptain Simms from Woodville attended and several of the Woodville comrades were present also. A most enjoyable evening was spent, and a good supper was partaken of at the conclusion of the programme. Captain Kueke and Lieutenant Nicholson (both male officers) are to take charge of the Pahiatua quarters. Mr George Allen, of "Tipua," Wairarapa, left Woodville to-day for Feilding, where, I understand, he will exhibit his well-known Romney Marsh sheep. Mr G. Jeffrey, a large exhibitor at the Wellington Rose and Carnation Show, will be an exhibitor in the horticultural section of the Pahiatua Show. A new list of books by the latest authors has been added to the Pahiatua Public Library. The Wairarapa Bacon Company will receive pigs at Mangamaire on February Ist, 15th and 29tb. A fine even crop of late oats are to be seen at Hamua next to the Maori Pah

By yesterday's afternoon mail the secretary of the Pahiatua Show received twelve more entries from outside districts for the horse and competition events, making the total in these classes, the splendid number of 315. In the last lot are more entries for the leaping competitions, which wHI no doubt be one of the main features of the Show, especially as some excellent horses, are to be present.

The inconvenience of the present railway timetable is still being felt here. Last evening a member of the Scarlet Troubadours stated that the company had to travel back to Woodville the same night by coach in order to catch the train in the morning in time for Hastings, as the first train up from Pahiatua did not afford facilities, whereby the company could reach Hastings to suit their requirements.

Speaking at the committee meeting of the A. and P. Association the other evening, the President, Mr J. C. Cooper) made special mention of the good work rendered by the Secretary, Mr J. A. Walsh, stating that it was due to his efforts that the more than satisfactory number of entries had been received, and ho took the opportunity of expressing his appreciation of his services, It may be that the committee are now ualising what a big thing they have in hand, and one and all are putting their shoulders to the wheel, with the result that Show matters are booming. Feed is still green and plentiful ail over this district, and a Wairarapa farmer, who has land in what may be termed the dry part nf that l district, and who visited several of . the outlying parts here," the other

day, stated, that he could understand the flats being green, but he was greatly astonished at the grenness of the hills, an-J could hardly believe his own eyes, when he started out, but after a journey of some twenty railes he was firmly convinced that ■what he had first seen proved correct the way along the journey. Although we are now over a month .past the turn of the dairying season managers of factories and creameries ■state that the milk supply is keeping up wonderfully well, and this in many instances is due to the fact

that dairymen in this district have started the method of testing and culling out the wasters from their herds. At the Konini (Ballance No. 2) Butter Factory over 70 boxes of butter are manufactured -daily.